A gun carrying man ended a stabbing spree, which is two things our opponents say never happens wrapped into one incident, that a gun owner stopped a mass killer, and that there are such things as stabbing sprees.

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I found it interesting to note that the article specified “Gun carrying man” ends stabbing spree, instead of “Gun” or “Gunman” ends stabbing spree. If this had been a bad shooting, the media would have written “gunman guns down passersby, etc.”

They are so quick to blame the gun for bad outcomes instead of the man, but focus on the man when a gun is used to salve lives!

Gun grabbers, and statists of all stripes, can be understood given the basic assumption that human life is precious beyond everything else. If most criminals would rather run than kill a victim, then more human lives can be saved by not shooting criminals, whether thieves or rapists. This is warped logic. Victims do not have the responsibility of putting their lives on the line for the greater good. But if you look at gun grabbers with that basic assumption in mind, everything they do makes sense.

I don’t know what gun grabbers think of obvious mass murderers like school shooters, where there is no doubt that shooting the murderer will save lives. I think those situations are so rare that they shouldn’t enter into the politics of guns, and maybe they think so too. 2 million defensive uses a year far outweigh the few school shootings there are, even if only one out of a thousand uses would have prevented a killing.

I really am upset at the disparaging tone taken towards the Post pub. It is really one of the last great truly “dive” bars in dc. Last time I went there, someone in my party asked what kind of wine they had. The surly bar matron responded. “Both kinds, red and white.”